wuauserv keeps stopping over and over

Question

As opposed to the forum post How do you prevent wuauserv (Windows Update Service) from restarting? the problem I'm facing is that I don't want Windows update to stop. My monitoring system keeps spamming me with notifications that the service has stopped.

Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? Is it known why the service keeps quitting? Event viewer doesn't tell me anything.

-- Jaapyse

Solution

Expanding on the previous answer, if the service is set to Auto (Trigger Start), it appears that the service will be stopped and started by the system as needed, and won't be running all the time.

If you need the service running all the time, you may need to remove the trigger: http://michlstechblog.info/blog/windows-remove-trigger-to-start-or-stop-a-service/

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